Happy Days Are Here Again

The Zookeepers are third and fourth generation Californians respectively and have had to suffer certain humiliations in recent years. If it wasn't crooked public servants of various stripes, it was catastrophic power shortages or the ongoing shame of having a movie star for a governor for the second time in living memory.

But things are looking up. Against all odds the California legislature has passed a bill providing for universal health care for every California resident. California would thus join the rest of the industrialized world in having such a comprehensive system, leaving the rest of the U.S. behind. So long, suckers ! Work remains to be done. The present movie star governor needs to sign the bill ( and apparently needs a little persuading, click HERE if you'd like to help) and a second bill describing the financing needs to be passed, but this is real progress and California is leading the way. We feel taller.

And that isn't all, no sir. For more on California leadership we look to another bill by which the Golden State proposes to again lead the nation by imposing a cap on greenhouse gas emissions. George Bush can see the Kyoto Accords he tried to avoid suddenly moving onshore.

California ! California ! The hills ring back our cry, California do or die, California ! California ! and etc.

Maybe its time to make the ancient map a reality and create California as an island, separate from the heaving bulk of the United States with its steaming and benighted masses. Healthy and pure, we will realize the golden promise that was ever ours.

I left my hearrrrrrt in San Francisco and etc.

Perhaps you care to move to California while there is still time, but at least

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